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Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2011
ICYMI: @InRO launched a podcast today! In Review On Mic is now available on our Substack or wherever else you get your podcasts. Listen to our debut episode (about some of our writers' favorite debut films) here: api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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Our Lee Chang-dong retrospective kicks off today @InRO. Become a paid subscriber to read brand-new essays on each of Lee's feature films ahead of the streaming release of Possible Love. First up: Tyler Thier on GREEN FISH (1997). api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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Our Lee Chang-dong retrospective kicks off today @InRO. Become a paid subscriber to read brand-new essays on each of Lee's feature films ahead of the streaming release of Possible Love. First up: Tyler Thier on GREEN FISH (1997). api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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realizing how much more difficult online scholarly research is when you're not associated with a university anymore...
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It is not anti-art to harbor a longing to engage w what interests you rather than what you, as a film critic, have a professional/financial incentive to write about. talking about the movie on this website is labor for us, writing about the movie is labor, GET MORE MARXIST NOW!!!
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The latest @InRO newsletter has, as usual, new reviews, interviews, and festival coverage, plus: a special announcement of new retrospective essays on the films of Lee Chang-dong. api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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New @InRO newsletter coming your way in an hour
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once again prepping for a filmmaker interview and feeling like I have, conservatively, about three coherent questions to ask.
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So I'm actually going to write a book proposal...
So I’m making a book proposal
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let's start with humanity and a sense of humor and a little bit of perversion
What quality do you value the most in a film director? Trying to get a gauge on what many cinephiles value the most these days.
29%Ambition
25%Audacity
11%Consistency
34%Idiosyncrasy
470 votes • Final results
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"Oh my god I loooove ________, they're so consistent!"
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Caesar salad straight from the mixing bowl dinner and a Diet Coke
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No shit
Rejoice. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is here to stay. Experience the uncensored director’s cut only in theaters: thedevils.movie
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Just letting you all know that I'm making a can vs. capable joke in Friday's @InRO newsletter. I'm not saying its amazing -- but it's there.
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evergreen
do not worship at the altar of your own taste…as a critic your job is being a writer…you are not an academic you are not a programmer…write something worth reading
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I’ve never seen a business needlessly trample over themselves because of their own small-minded pettiness like I continually see the Cinema Arts Center do. It would almost be fascinating if it weren’t so frustrating.
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School field trip to Film Forum this week?
Strange that, with everything in theaters right now, I’m not seeing more tweets about SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE
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I just love A Dim Valley. Big interview with Brandon Colvin coming from me very soon for @InRO.
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my carrot top pesto has turned my carrot risotto a sickly brown, but that's okay!
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i am now eating lemonade sour patch kids
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